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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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100 county states attorneys out of 102 reject the SAFE T act. In a normal world that would send a message but this is the Peoples Republic of Illinois, a corrupt kingdom run by uber liberal democrats who are hell bent on destroying any sense of responsible governance. Chicago/Cook County run the entire state. Two more democrat officials indicted with more on the way. An entitled rich boy governor who thinks he’s king, a radical black lives matter group of elected state senators and representatives who refuse to recognize the problem of black crime and people think petitions matter? Conservative… Read more »
Chicago/Cook doesn’t run the state. It’s progressives that run the state, many of whom are from Chicago/Cook. They know the SAFE-T Act is unpopular, and deterimental to public safe-t. But like all communists trying to force unpopular agendas upon on unwilling and unwanting populations, they’re going to ultimately resort to violence to force you to accept it.
The legislature will be more blue than ever this Nov. The gerrymandered maps will mostly succeed.
Don’t expect them to do anything.
Safe-T act, Affordable health care act, Inflation Reduction act. Double speak at its finest.
If GOP wins Supreme Court races, that would be an opportunity to shitcan the SAFE-T Act
Thank you for the down vote Justice Anne Burke. Soon you’ll be able to help your husband Eddie shake down more businesses after you retire.